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winter path in the Alps or a frog fish in Bali?
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How
you can be sure this is a scene from a winter walking tour in the
Alps or really sure this is an underwater photo of a frog fish in
Bali?
As
you have your eyes and brains it's rather easy.
a)
snow on branches is typical for Alps
b)
bare trees and branches are typical for wintertime Alps
c)
dark brown frog fish in the center is typical for underwater
environment
d)
corals growing from the underwater wall are typical for Menjangan
walls
If
you were with me when taking this photo, you would know. As it is,
even unedited photo, additional information, your eyes, your brain,
your vast knowledge accumulated through years... doesn't help.
Your
perception will still let you recognize it for what it is or for what
it isn't.
And
this is a just a photo.
Very
much same goes for our perceptions of ideas, facts, people... And yet
in these a touch more important departments we can be so sure of our
proper perception that it hurts.
I
have no doubt whatsoever that she is lazy, he is stupid and greedy,
that the Moon and clouds are making love, that rainbow tastes way
sweeter than a snowflake...
In
two cases I'm sweetly right, in two I'm brilliantly wrong - no
wonder so much aggravation, stress, anger and other nice things are
floating around...
It's
interesting that most of the things about which nobody could say true
or false with any degree of certainty, we can easily declare as holly
truth.
Not
even the fact, that most of our perceptions are in fact the most
beautiful examples of misperceptions, can not change our sacred
perceptions.
Well,
if our “infallible” perceptions make as happy, so be it...
Or...?
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